Re: pg_upgrade project status - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: pg_upgrade project status
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Msg-id 497F1BCF.4070805@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: pg_upgrade project status  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: pg_upgrade project status
Re: pg_upgrade project status
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Zdenek Kotala wrote:
>> 2) pg_upgrade.sh
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-12/msg00248.php
>>
>> Pg_upgrade.sh is shell script for catalog conversion. It works for
>> 8.3->8.4 upgrade. It will be useful while we will not have better
>> solution. Disadvantage is that it is korn shell script. The idea is to
>> rewrite it in PERL which is more portable, but I'm not PERL expert and
>> currently there is no workable solution.
> 
> I have had a very brief look at this. Translation to perl doesn't look 
> difficult. I'll see what I can do during the next week or so.

We don't require perl for any other feature, do we? Seems like a pretty 
onerous requireemnt for Windows in particular. We do use perl in the 
build scripts, but that's only required if you want to compile from source.

--   Heikki Linnakangas  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com


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